Intrigued to read this morning about an important new non-departmental body called the 'Trade Remedy Authority, seemingly once part of the Department for International Trade. A department with a web presence, but one which seems to live inside the gov.uk umbrella of reference 1, rather than having its own web site.
Presently involved in a big spat about steel - and what if anything needs to be done to protect this once large & important industry from intruding foreigners - and a small spat about trout from Turkey. On which last subject they offer an 80 page document called 'Statement of Essential Facts: Case TS0002: Transition review of countervailing measures applying to certain rainbow trout originating in Turkey', from which the snap above is taken.
It seems that trout farming only occupies a small place in our world of fish, but a place which is threatened by subsidised trout fillets coming from Turkey. Hard for a lay-person to get to grips with this sort of thing, but I think that UK trout farmers are lobbying for tariff protection to be continued. I did not notice anything about chilled vs. frozen, the subject of a different spat about sausages to Northern Ireland, noticed a couple of weeks ago at reference 2.
Lots of tricky details which people like Johnson hate and people like Cummings love.
PS: the authority was advertising for one or more part time, non-executive directors - the same title and the same salary as the late Hancock's good friend at Health - but the window for application has now closed. Another missed opportunity.
Reference 1: https://www.gov.uk/.
Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2021/06/puzzled-of-epsom.html.
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